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To be fair, this is a forum for people who are enthusiastic enough about kilts to spend their time reading and posting about them. It's not surprising that those with such interest have a stronger desire to own multiple kilts than the average Scot, who was born into the culture and may or may not care for them.

Also, this is just a musing and may be completely wrong, but it seems that in Scotland owning multiple kilts may raise the question among those around you "WHY do you own multiple kilts?"
In America, as soon as a person buys ONE kilt, they've already become "the guy with the kilt", so whether you own one or ten, it doesn't change others' perception of you much.

I don't own only one pair of jeans, slacks, or dress shirts, and I'm not strongly attached to any of them. But I do enjoy kilts, so I'd like to acquire more as finances permit.
Interesting musings, and I think you're on to something.

Coming from the piping side of things, I would propose that for most pipers the analogy wouldn't be between a kilt and a pair of jeans, but between a kilt and a tuxedo.

A musician isn't going to have a closet-full of tuxedos, but probably one, the thing he's required to wear when doing a public performance with an orchestra.

With many (if not most) pipers that kilt hanging in their closet belongs to their band. I've known pipers who went a lifetime of being regularly kilted without ever having owned a kilt.

However pipers who don't play in a band, or who in addition to a band do Solo competition, will own a kilt. (Just one.) I'm thinking of the band I play in, there's only myself and two other people in the band (both pipers) who own a kilt, as far as I know. I own four, which the other people in the band would think a bit nutters (if they found out).